Stan culture doesn’t mean turning your back on the problematic things a person’s image embodies. It means being inspired by what a person’s image opens up to you, taking what it means in the popular consciousness and seeing how it can send you in a direction that makes your life better.
Celebrities with single names: an academic analysis.
We as a society often hold up celebrities with a single name as the epitome of success as they are evoked as an individual by so little, showing how transcendent they are, but perhaps we are overlooking the inherent paternalistic and racist subtleties of denying a person their full name in the media?
Late Romantic 